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Neo-Luddite. Working on my flaws.

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“I’m not a Disney girl. I just really like the magic of Disney”
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How many amigos took YEARS of Spanish classes and have no idea what bad bunny is talking about?
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When inexpensive fiat transfers are properly integrated and facilitated on-chain, we will see a > 90% reduction in wire and check fraud.
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I usually keep a hoodie in my basement office because it gets cold. I forget that it's my basement hoodie, and I bring it upstairs. Later, I'm cold, and I have a lab coat in my office from Halloween. Sometimes when I write code, I look like a literal computer scientist.
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The twitter rebrand is just a marketing deal with Fox
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Alex Waters retweeted
People asking why the SEC/Gensler are taking a ridiculous position on crypto -- i.e., "come in and register, but haha you can't actually because crypto doesn't fit our regs." Is it dumb? Evil? Just protecting incumbents? No -- it's that they don't see the paradigm shift. 1/
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In addition to ironing this t-shirt (which republishes code from a comment letter), will I need to register as an exchange before wearing it? "It depends," per the SEC's latest release: sec.gov/news/statement/peirc…
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Yesterday I asked my kindergartener what she did in school and she said "nothing," then later I went on Instagram and her teacher had posted a picture of her holding a crocodile.
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The stages of discussing the AI existential threat to humanity at family dinner: 1. What are you talking about 2. That’s insane 3. That sounds unhinged 4. How can I play with it 5. (The noise of faint beeps)
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Replying to @thegarrettscott
Stop I’m crying
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Ordinals, and here I thought Bitcoin was fungible /s 🤣
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Dev culture is the CEO of Coinbase getting their pull request denied for having ugly JSON
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In all seriousness, I gave my girlfriend a regex for Valentine’s Day
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As ChatGPT becomes more restrictive, Reddit users have been jailbreaking it with a prompt called DAN (Do Anything Now). They're on version 5.0 now, which includes a token-based system that punishes the model for refusing to answer questions.
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Living with a barista… “Let me know how it is”
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Various motor oils, petrol, gear oil, and other contaminants drip and exhaust from traditional cars. Will the reduction of car detritus significantly reduce road accidents -- when electric cars become ubiquitous?
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Science fair project: take samples from road puddles and compare slickness over time.
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further reading: 1. The Little Book of Tire Pavement Friction - Virginia Tech 2. Guide for Pavement Friction (nap.nationalacademies.org/re…) surprisingly little data on friction coefficients for road surfaces that includes contaminants
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